Early this year I bought a new Doosan 2 axis slant bed with a FANUC control. This lathe is my first time having a FANUC control, and I am a bit annoyed with the control. I'm hoping someone can shed some light my concerns.
When I am in REF or JOG mode, I can use the physical tool changer buttons to rotate the turret to any tool I want.
However this is not the same as going into MDI and typing T0101. Because if you manually change tools using the hardware keypad, it will bring up the tool with NO OFFSET.
I can't wrap my mind as to why this would ever be a good idea, if the turret is manually rotated it should by default apply the LAST KNOWN tool offset. There is absolutely no reason I would ever want the turret to rotate to a new tool with 0 offset. It is just straight up dangerous having a 7" long U-Drill sticking out while the machine thinks the pocket is at 0. I know you can have multiple offsets, so even if by default it would call up the first offset, I'd be fine with that cause that would make sense.
Is there parameters I could modify so that it brings up the offsets on manual tool changes? or perhaps I'm missing something as to why FANUC has this behavious by default?
When I am in REF or JOG mode, I can use the physical tool changer buttons to rotate the turret to any tool I want.
However this is not the same as going into MDI and typing T0101. Because if you manually change tools using the hardware keypad, it will bring up the tool with NO OFFSET.
I can't wrap my mind as to why this would ever be a good idea, if the turret is manually rotated it should by default apply the LAST KNOWN tool offset. There is absolutely no reason I would ever want the turret to rotate to a new tool with 0 offset. It is just straight up dangerous having a 7" long U-Drill sticking out while the machine thinks the pocket is at 0. I know you can have multiple offsets, so even if by default it would call up the first offset, I'd be fine with that cause that would make sense.
Is there parameters I could modify so that it brings up the offsets on manual tool changes? or perhaps I'm missing something as to why FANUC has this behavious by default?